After a home invasion, Clyde Shelton is told that one of the criminals who killed his wife and daughter would get off due to his cooperation with the district attorney's office and the other would be put on death row.
Shelton seeks revenge not just against the criminals but the entire justice system; he is quickly captured, but Nick Rice, a heroic yet corrupt D.A. who got one of the murderers off, quickly realizes that prison isn't enough to keep Shelton from killing those who kept the criminals from getting the sentence they deserved.